[xnx]

It's very cool that useful models can be run on single personal computers at all. For coding, your time is very valuable, and I'd never want to use anything less than the best. I'm happy to pay pennies to use a frontier model with a huge context model and great speed.

[chipsrafferty]

This is mostly for one of 4 reasons:

1. Sovereignty over data, your outputs can't be stolen or trained on

2. Just for fun / learning / experiment on

3. Avoid detection that you're using AI

4. No Internet connection, in the woods at your cabin or something

[biker142541]

Agreed. It’s definitely been fun playing locally, learning, fine tuning, etc, but these models just don’t quite cut it for serious development tasks (yet, and assuming none of the above considerations apply). I haven’t found better than Gemini 2.5 for my work so far.

[marcalc]

This is my key points too. I love the power of having search engine on my laptop.